Originally Posted by
Chakradevroy
Well modern earth-tech helmets in fact are not at all that good. They are meant to protect more like a hardhat than stop a bullet. The amount of protection one can put on their head has always been more for deflection. So it stands to reason that they go in with no helmet because if you take plasma shot to the face it's kind of moot, and alien grenades tend to be above our level of protection as well. That means they're not really going to save lives. Think about it historically. When the firearm reached about the flintlock stage humanity forewent armor all together. Until World War I and then they got the dough boy helmet, but even then it was more for protection against fragmentation and falling debris than taking a bullet.
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